I Read Stories: The Thirteenth Dancer by Leah Cypess

 

The Thirteenth Dancer by Leah Cypess in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

The dancer, the princess, left fairyland. She earned a living telling people how to get there, what not to do. How to avoid the traps. How to achieve their goals. And warned them that it will crumble to dust in their hands. They went anyway.

A soldier paid her to tell him how to save a dancing princess. He hasn’t returned. And now she has to go and confront her past. Learn what she has forgotten. Confront her father.

Dance one more time.

A riff on fairy tales and the perils of the fae. With sacrifice and being unable to let go and family.

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